2011 Leaf Pete Rose Legacy Baseball Cards

No matter your opinion of Pete Rose the person, Pete Rose the ballplayer is one of the best-ever. Leaf is bringing both Rose the person and the player to the table for 2011 Leaf Pete Rose Legacy Baseball, one of the most unique baseball card sets in a long time. Offering a Rose autograph in every single-pack box, the big draw is the inscriptions that many will come with. They cover on-field accomplishments, baseball thoughts, personal notes and provocative statements about Rose's notorious history with gambling. Boxes come with five base cards and one autograph. The base set has 60 cards.

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User Reviews

IF you’re rating this product based on the individual, in comparing him to one of MLB’s quiet heroes, you’ll do a disservice. Truthfully, Pete Rose is OUT of baseball because of…Pete Rose. Still, it’s nice to pay some homage to a ballplayer who gave 110% every game, and the man does have the most games played, most at-bats, and most base hits (4,256) in MLB History. Doesn’t that account for something positive, regardless of what a few bitter old ballplayers think? Good product, and Mr. Rose needs to get HIS act together, too.